“The manufacturing Institute says the average age of manufacturing workers is 56- while there are more than 600,000 open jobs across the country.”

“Young people who are interested in the trades tend to gravitate toward high-tech jobs.”

Skilled labor seems to have gotten a bad rap, according to Aaron Sue Miller, advisor for Michigan Works. But the fact remains that jobs in the skilled trades are available across the country and that they offer interesting work and great pay and benefits and opportunities to grow a career.

Just think- Who will be the boss when the baby boomers are gone?

Where are the younger workers? Who will be the boss when the baby boomers retire?